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The Fall of Arthur
The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England’s legendary hero, King Arthur. The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur’s expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere’s flight from Camelot, of the great sea-battle on Arthur’s return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle. Unhappily, The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that he abandoned in that period. In this case he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him ‘You simply must finish it!’ But in vain: he abandoned it, at some date unknown, though there is some evidence that it may have been in 1937, the year of the publication of The Hobbit and the first stirrings of The Lord of the Rings. Years later, in a letter of 1955, he said that ‘he hoped to finish a long poem on The Fall of Arthur’; but that day never came. Associated with the text of the poem, however, are many manuscript pages: a great quantity of drafting and experimentation in verse, in which the strange evolution of the poem’s structure is revealed, together with narrative synopses and very significant if tantalising notes. In these latter can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of the Arthurian conclusion with The Silmarillion, and the bitter ending of the love of Lancelot and Guinevere, which was never written.
Time Management: Learn the Strategies and Secrets of Successful People to Increase Your Productivity and Stop Procrastinating for Entrepreneurs
Multiply your productivity in the next few days and leave your friends and co workers in disbelief at your new lease of life?Create more free time in your busy schedule to pursue meaningful activities that have been pushed to one side over and over in the past?Set effective goals that naturally motivate you, eliminate distraction and let you emerge victorious in the war against procrastination?In this book, you will learn:Overcoming procrastinationOrganizing your prioritiesThe Pareto PrincipleThe Pomodoro Technique for time managementHoning your ability to concentratePrinciples of effective time managementMuch more...Most important, the time management skills and habits that you glean from this eBook prepare you for the working world. Virtually every skill and habit presented in this eBook works for professionals that want to increase productivity and thus, bolster their careers. College students that master time management skills and habits tend to achieve more success during their four or more years of academic training. Very few people question that optimizing your time leads to great things. The question, however, lies in the details.If so, the Time Management Strategy is the book you’ve been searching for! As a working woman with four children, Debra Conn understands your frustrations because she has been where you are. Her system for time management is the result of lots of research plus years of trial and error.
Summary: The 80/20 Principle
The must-read summary of Richard Koch's book: "The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More With Less". This complete summary of the ideas from Richard Koch's book "The 80/20 Principle" shows that 80% of the results in any system will flow from just 20% of the efforts. Further demonstrating that the key to success is to expand on this 20%, this summary will offer you 10 techniques to do so. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand key concepts• Expand your management skillsTo learn more, read "The 80/20 Principle" and take advantage of this exceptionally useful paradigm!
Farmer Giles of Ham
On eBook for the first time, this edition of Tolkien’s classic book includes an introduction, a map, a copy of Tolkien’s unpublished short story which he expanded for publication, his notes for an aborted sequel, and the original first edition illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Farmer Giles of Ham did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and enjoyed a slow, comfortable life. Then one day a rather deaf and short-sighted giant blundered on to his land. More by luck than skill, Farmer Giles managed to scare him away. The people of the village cheered: Farmer Giles was a hero. His reputation spread far and wide across the kingdom. So it was natural that when the dragon Chrysophylax visited the area it was Farmer Giles who was expected to do battle with it!
Time Management: How to Stop Procrastinating, Get More Done and Increase Your Productivity While Working From Home (Simple Strategies to Increase Productivity)
Time is your most important God-given resource — no matter how hard you work, you can’t make a day last longer than twenty-four hours. As a pastor, you may grapple with overlapping activities, growing calendar demands and the challenges of balancing your ministry, family and personal health— without shortchanging any of these areas. Add to this the expectation to always be available thanks to today’s technology, and you are left feeling overwhelmed, unfocused and frustrated.If you have issues with your time management or simply wish to improve your time management skills, then 'Time Management Techniques' is your go to guide.Earl Nightingale said “You don't manage time, you manage activities” This book therefore highlights 8 essential strategies that you must do each day to generate more free time, so that you can do the things you really want to do.By studying this book, it will certainly improve your management of time and end the dreaded procrastination. You can use it as both a strategic time management tool and a useful day to day time manual.Control your time. Effective use of time occurs when you learn to manage time effectively by focusing on tasks, minimizing disruptions, and using unexpected, unexpected delays. .If you pursue the seven secrets you will know how to use your time sensibly, how to live effectively, how to take advantage of the unexpected events that happen in life. Hope all good things will come to you!
Letters from Father Christmas
This ebook version of Tolkien's timeless classic presents readers with a plethora of full colour images of the original letters alongside the transcribed text, offering a truly engrossing reading experience. Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house into the dining-room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house! Sometimes the Polar Bear would scrawl a note, and sometimes Ilbereth the Elf would write in his elegant flowing script, adding yet more life and humour to the stories. No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by the inventiveness and ‘authenticity’ of Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas. This ebook version of the letters brings Tolkien's creation alive, providing readers with a truly engaging experience.
Time Management: Proven Techniques That Will Allow You to Achieve Greater Success & Productivity (Time Management and Productivity Solutions Book)
There is perhaps no area of your life in which self-discipline is more important than in the way you manage your time. Time management is a core discipline that largely determines the quality of your life. There is one thing all successful people have in common, is they are good time managers and the reason they are good time managers is because they recognize The Time Management is really Life Management, Personal Management, management of yourself rather than of time or circumstances. Successful people winners use their time well, losers do not.The majority of us often use the lack of time as a reason for not finishing a particular task. But why do other individuals who are given similar task successfully finish the same project at the same time frame? This is because they know how to manage their time efficiently to accommodate all their responsibilities. Each of us is given similar amount of time. It is how we use it that makes a difference.Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn...Time Management for Personal AchievementLearning Great Time Management PracticesTime Management Strategies for SuccessAcknowledge Being AliveTime Management and Study SkillsTime management and ProductivityScroll to the top and select the "BUY" button for instant download.
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition
The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of the languages and history of Middle-earth as recorded in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, was one of the most prolific letter-writers of this century. Over the years he wrote a mass of letters – to his publishers, to members of his family, to friends, and to 'fans' of his books – which often reveal the inner workings of his mind, and which record the history of composition of his works and his reaction to subsequent events. A selection from Tolkien's correspondence, collected and edited by Tolkien's official biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, and assisted by Christopher Tolkien, was published in 1981. It presented, in Tolkien's own words, a highly detailed portrait of the man in his many aspects: storyteller, scholar, Catholic, parent, friend, and observer of the world around him. In this revised and expanded edition of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, it has been possible to go back to the editors’ original typescripts and notes, restoring more than 150 letters that were excised purely to achieve what was then deemed a ‘publishable length’, and present the book as originally intended. Enthusiasts for his writings will find much that is new, for the letters not only include fresh information about Middle-earth, such as Tolkien’s own plot summary of the entirety of The Lord of the Rings and a vision for publishing his ‘Tales of the Three Ages’, but also many insights into the man and his world. In addition, this new selection will entertain anyone who appreciates the art of letter-writing, of which J.R.R. Tolkien was a master.
The Monsters and the Critics
The complete collection of Tolkien’s essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings. The seven essays by J.R.R. Tolkien assembled in this edition were with one exception delivered as general lectures on particular occasions; and while they mostly arose out of Tolkien’s work in medieval literature, they are accessible to all. Two of them are concerned with Beowulf, including the well-known lecture whose title is taken for this book, and one with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, given in the University of Glasgow in 1953. Also included in this volume is the lecture ‘English and Welsh’; the Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford in 1959; and a paper on Invented Languages delivered in 1931, with exemplification from poems in the Elvish tongues. Most famous of all is ‘On Fairy-Stories’, a discussion of the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy, which gives insight into Tolkien’s approach to the whole genre. The pieces in this collection cover a period of nearly thirty years, beginning six years before the publication of The Hobbit, with a unique ‘academic’ lecture on his invention (calling it ‘A Secret Vice’) and concluding with his farewell to professorship, five years after the publication of The Lord of the Rings.
The Lost Road
At the end of the 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien reluctantly set aside his now greatly elaborated work on the myths and heroic legends of Valinor and Middle-earth and began The Lord of the Rings. This fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien, completes the presentation of the whole compass of his writing on those themes up to that time. Later forms of the Annuals of Valinor and the Annals of Berleriand had been composed, The Silmarillion was nearing completion in a greatly amplified version, and a new map had been made; the myth of the Music of the Ainur had become a separate work; and the legend of the Downfall of Numenor had already entered in a primitive form, introducing the cardinal ideas of the World Made Round and the Straight Path into the vanished West. Closely associated with this was the abandoned time-travel story, The Lost Road, which was to link the world of Numenor and Middle-earth with the legends of many other times and peoples. A long essay, The Lhammas, had been written on the ever more complex relations of the languages and dialects of Middle-earth; and an etymological dictionary had been undertaken, in which a great number of words and names in the Elvish languages were registered and their formation explained - thus providing by far the most extensive account of their vocabularies that has appeared.
Bilbo's Last Song
While Bilbo embarks on his last journey to the West, his mind is cast back to his first big adventure, THE HOBBIT. J.R.R TOLKIEN's beautiful poem is bought to life through Pauline Bayne's stunning illustrations. It's the perfect introduction to the epic fantasy series of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS for younger readers, and a real treat for all Tolkien fans.Baynes' illustrations have been fully restored in this fantastic new edition, which is published to coincide with the film release of THE HOBBIT in autumn 2012.
A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages
First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkien’s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in ‘A Secret Vice’, ‘the making of language and mythology are related functions’. In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his sub-creative methodology. The second of these, the seminal Andrew Lang Lecture for 1938–9, ‘On Fairy-Stories’, which he delivered at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, is well known. But many years before, in 1931, Tolkien gave a talk to a literary society entitled ‘A Hobby for the Home’, where he unveiled for the first time to a listening public the art that he had both himself encountered and been involved with since his earliest childhood: ‘the construction of imaginary languages in full or outline for amusement’. This talk would be edited by Christopher Tolkien for inclusion as ‘A Secret Vice’ in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays and serves as the principal exposition of Tolkien’s art of inventing languages. This new critical edition, which includes previously unpublished notes and drafts by Tolkien connected with the essay, including his ‘Essay on Phonetic Symbolism’, goes some way towards re-opening the debate on the importance of linguistic invention in Tolkien’s mythology and the role of imaginary languages in fantasy literature.